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Date:      Thu, 18 Feb 1999 11:42:10 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>
Cc:        Jake <jake@checker.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: softupdate panic, anyone seen this?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.990218112555.13983V-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <199902180912.BAA18642@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com>

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remember that mfs is still a UFS
and as such still calls the stub entrypoints for softupdates and
is still subject to the 'syncer' daemon.


On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Don Lewis wrote:

> On Feb 17,  7:30pm, Jake wrote:
> } Subject: Re: softupdate panic, anyone seen this?
> } > > * mfs process aborts with signal 11.
> } > > * Hang after "syncing disks ... done" message.
> } > 
> } > occasionaly I see the "panic: softdep_sync_metadata: Unknown type bmsafemap"
> 
> After reading the source for softdep_sync_metadata(), I might believe this
> could happen if the system tried to sync the block device for a softdep
> filesystem before had synced all the files.
> 
> } I was seeing all of this and other wierdness when I had mfs's mounted
> } on /tmp and /var/tmp.
> 
> I don't know why MFS would have an effect on this.  The only two things
> I can think of are either swapping to a file on a softdep filesystem, or
> somehow the softupdates stuff thinks it should be active on the MFS
> filesystems.  What does /sbin/mount say about the mount flags on these
> filesystems?
> 
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